Thursday, 23 January 2014

Emotional intelligence Quiz...yeah right.

Is the word mightier than the sword or even the brain? Here
is firstly an explanation of the strange word behaviour by an odd columnist and
then a short quiz.

Liam Hehir, a Key fan.

A very new property lawyer in Palmerston North by the name of Liam Hehir and who happens to be
a weekly columnist for the local Fairfax owned
paper the Manawatu Standard.

So far his [Hehir] claim to fame is that he created a new so-called
public relations word image of our Prime Minister John Key.

No he never referred to or reinvented Key as a financial
whiz kid, nor a world class financial manipulator who took over the National
Party without any community or National Party membership background nor by
winning favour though hard work amongst the membership. Then standing for
election as leader, [the national party rank and file have no say in deciding
who should be leader] the present PM, did none of those standard things that
normally serve as the apprenticeship period or grass-roots political training
period for future leaders. Instead he used a new and more effective tool that Hehir
calls ‘Emotional intelligence’.

Something that poor old farmer Jim Bolger lacked and one assumes that Bill English, Jenny Shipley,
Don Brash all lacked…since unlike
Bolger [on the back of Winston Peters
who ratted on his supporters] they never won an election.

The word emotional
according to the dictionary means: 1. [of people] having feelings which are
strong or easily moved: [Women are said to be more emotional than men].
Opposite: unemotional. 2. [Of words, literature, music etc.] Showing strong
feelings, able to cause strong feeling: and 3. Emotive: He / she has; emotional
difficulties.

The word intelligence
means: 1. ability to learn and understand. 2. Information gathered on an enemy
country, or a group of people, as practiced by the Central intelligence agency
etc.

Note: It is said
that humans are more intelligent than animals and that a child with a clever
quick mind is intelligent but he can hardly be intellectual.

So does Liam Hehir think that our PM is gifted with the
ability to learn and understand? And that he learns by being moved by strong
feelings and that he is more emotional than most men. Linking the two words
emotional and intelligence leaves a lot of scope in attempting to understand
just what was in the mind of the author.

Let’s put the budding columnist’s theory through a short
test by taking a closer look at Key’s behaviour:

Emotional: Was Key being emotionally intelligent when he
denied knowing Kim Dotcom or when he couldn’t remember ringing and having dinner
with his old school mate Ian Fletcher
whom he appointed against advice to be head of the GCSB? Yes or no.

Did Key using above average intelligence when he allowed the
GCSB, SIS and US spy agencies to break NZ laws in the covert listening and
illegal raid on the Dotcom mansion in Keys own electorate and then denied having
any knowledge of it before hand? Yes or no.

Did Key use super emotional intelligence when he invited
John Banks for a cup of tea in a public place, then order the police to act as
if they had that cup of tea in a private place…is that the emotional
intelligence Liam Hehir is using as his guide? Yes or no.

Did Key’s willingness to hand over intelligence information
to a foreign power, send our troops on illegal actions under command of foreign
commanders that directly caused the deaths of our troops, was being ‘emotionally
intelligent’ or did it mean that he lacked the ability to read the intelligence
reports that he receives weekly? Yes or no.

And every time he answers a question with: “I can remember,
or I don’t know which side I was on in 1981, or his too common reply of, “Oh
I’m comfortable about that”, that this is emotional intelligence in action? Yes
or no.

There is a word that covers the behaviours of John Key and
other politicians I might add. That word is ‘cunning’…is using cunning using
emotional intelligence or is simply being sly and duplicitous and a good
manager of public relations crap. You decide.